Show r ij ff j STATUE OF RAMESES II Treasure Lately Unearthed In th the e British Museum By special permission of the director direct direct- or of the Egyptian section of the Brit J ish h Museum Museum- 1 I hav Just just b been en permitted permit ted fed to to photographs tor the time tini e th the thre remarkable re na st statue u r which which- r h having vi g b been een away as of no no nom m. m m- m ill in irl an an- obsCure c f fit of f the ithe e museum for several years has his Just been identified as a probably authentic All Y r A tl r a WHO effigy of Rameses II whom n.-whom whom the Bible calls Pharaoh the Pharaoh the Egyptian tyrant who p the children of Israel writes a a famous scientist Thus we have the the- first portrait portrait- of this famous monarch It is now authoritatively declared that this statue must have taken been f from m the tombs pf of the Egyptian Kings It was br brought to the museum from Egypt some years ago but then its genuineness was called into into ques ques tion The other day ho however ever C. C H. H an Eg Egyptologist of European European Eu Eu- repute and Mr Ix Birch the present present present pres pres- ent ent head of the Egyptian section of the museum while poking around haphazard haphazard ard fashion in the rubbish room of the institution happened on the rejected statue and had it brought out in the daylight t. t Aft After r that it took them a comparatively comparatively compare time short time to satisfy themselves beyond an any any doubt of the genuineness of this likeness of th the Egyptian ruler who flourished 1333 years before Christ and whose tyranny was was resist resist resisted ed d by bt l Io Moses es The he statue was prompt prompt- ly JY y armed to the Egyptian room at the museum and given one of the places of honor ther there Topsy Not Nota a handsome p ji jut better petter than the you you may seo see may By looking look look- ing at him upside down V |